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Mar 31

❗️Russian media report that contact has been lost with a military transport An-26 aircraft over Crimea.

/2. Russian sources linked to military aviation confirm the crash of an An-26 transport aircraft over Crimea. The crew was killed.

/3. According to the Russian aviation-linked channel Fighterbomber, the An-26 that crashed over Crimea was carrying around 30 personnel on board at the time of the incident.

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Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦

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Mar 31

🔥🛢️ Massive explosion at the Russian Taneko oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, 1130km from the frontline. Capacity of the Taneko oil refinery is 8,7mln tons of oil annually.

/2. Russian Taneko oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk after a massive explosion

/3. Videos filmed shortly after explosion at the Russian Taneko oil refinery

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Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦

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Mar 3

BREAKING: A sanctioned Russian LNG tanker, Arctic Metagaz, part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, is on fire off the coast of Malta and Libya. The vessel was attacked by unknown naval drones.

/2. Arctic Metataz current location.

More details by Times Malta: timesofmalta.com/article/russia…

/3. Page with info regarding sanitationed Rusian shade fleet tanker Arctic Metagaz: war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/transport/s…

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Feb 14

🪡🧵/1. Footage shows the NEMESIS unit of the @usf_army “bombarding” NATO armored columns during drills in Estonia.

NEMESIS, a Ukrainian unit that participated in major NATO exercises in Estonia, helped simulate a drone-dominated battlefield for the Alliance.
Below is a thread with NEMESIS drone operators insights and the experience they gained during the drills.

/2. The military exercise Hedgehog-2025 took place in Estonia in May last year.

More than 16,000 service members from 12 NATO member states, as well as Ukraine, participated in the drills — including operators from the 412th Nemesis Brigade.

/3. Under one of the exercise scenarios, a large NATO battlegroup numbering several thousand troops conducted an offensive operation.

Playing the role of the opposing force was a Ukrainian UAV unit — bomber drone crews from the 412th NEMESIS Brigade, along with several FPV drone teams from the 427th Rarog Brigade and the International Legion of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR).

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Feb 13

/1. (WSJ) - NATO conducted large-scale military exercises in Estonia, the Hedgehog 2025 drills, bringing together more than 16,000 troops from 12 member states, with Ukrainian drone operators serving as a simulated adversary.

The exercise laid bare a sobering conclusion: Alliance is not ready for a battlefield where drones dominate the sky and make every move visible and vulnerable.

/2. The exercises goal was to recreated a battlefield packed with threats and constant drone activity, pushing units to operate under pressure and testing how well they could adapt in real time.

From the outset, things did not go as smoothly. In one scenario, a NATO battle group of several thousand troops, including a British brigade and an Estonian division, advanced as if the battlefield had not fundamentally changed, effectively ignoring the drone threat as though it did not exist.

“The NATO battle group simply moved around without camouflage, setting up tents and armored vehicles. Everything was destroyed,” said one participant who acted as the opposing force.

/3. A single Ukrainian team of about 10 personnel acting as the simulated enemy managed within half a day to replicate the destruction of 17 armored vehicles and carry out 30 additional strikes on other targets.

According to Aivar Hanniotti, who commanded the roughly 100-strong opposing unit, more than 30 drones were operating in an area of less than 10 square kilometers — only about half the drone density currently seen along Ukraine’s front line.

“There was no possibility to hide. We quite easily found cars and mechanized units, and we were able to take them out quite fast with strike drones,”

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